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OpenSim::Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics Class Reference

This class implements the metabolic energy model of Bhargava et al (2004) and provides an option to use smooth (i.e., twice continuously differentiable) approximations. More...

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static Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolicssafeDownCast (OpenSim::Object *obj)
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static ObjectSafeCopy (const Object *aObject)
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static const std::string & getClassName ()
 This returns "Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics"
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Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolicsclone () const override
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 ModelComponent ()
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 ModelComponent (const std::string &aFileName, bool aUpdateFromXMLNode=true)
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 ModelComponent (SimTK::Xml::Element &aNode)
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virtual ~ModelComponent ()
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void connectToModel (Model &model)
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const ModelgetModel () const
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ModelupdModel ()
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bool hasModel () const
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void preScale (const SimTK::State &s, const ScaleSet &scaleSet)
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std::string getDocumentFileName () const
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int getDocumentFileVersion () const
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bool print (const std::string &fileName) const
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std::string dump () const
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Detailed Description

This class implements the metabolic energy model of Bhargava et al (2004) and provides an option to use smooth (i.e., twice continuously differentiable) approximations.

These approximations might be better suited for gradient-based optimization algorithms.

We propose two smooth implementations.

In the first implementation, conditional if statements were approximated by using hyperbolic tangent functions (tanh). For example, the following if statement:

     y = a, if x <= d 
     y = b, if x > d 

can be approximated by:

     f = 0.5 + 0.5 tanh(b(x-d)) 
     y = a + (-a + b) f 

where b is a parameter that determines the smoothness of the transition.

In the second implementation, conditional if statements were approximated by using Huber loss functions, which have the following form:

     L(f(x)) = 0.5 f(x)^2, if f(x) <= delta 
     L(f(x)) = delta(f(x) - 0.5 delta), otherwise. 

The Huber loss function is quadratic for f(x) <= delta and linear otherwise, with equal value and slopes of the different sections at the points where f(x) = delta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huber_loss). In our implementation, we scaled this function with a parameter b that determines the smootheness of the transition between the quadratic and linear parts. Note that this approximation is piecewise but still continuous.

The metabolic energy model includes components for activation heat rate, maintenance heat rate, shortening heat rate, and mechanical work rate.

The shortening heat rate model differs between concentric contractions and eccentric contractions. We smoothed the transition between both contraction types using our smoothing functions. Note that when using the force dependent shortening proportional constant, we only provide the tanh smoothing option for approximating the shortening heat rate. This is motivated by the fact that the shortening heat rate is defined by linear functions but with different non-zero constants of proportionality for concentric and eccentric contractions. It is therefore easier to smooth the transition between both contraction types with a tanh function than with a Huber loss function. The difference between the original (non-smooth) and the smooth implementations is illustrated in the following figure:

Curves produced using isometricTotalActiveForce=350, fiberForceTotal=250, velocity_smoothing=10

The mechanical work rate model includes negative mechanical work rate (i.e., work rate resulting from eccentric contraction) by default. However, if specified by the user, the model only takes positive mechanical work rate (i.e., work rate resulting from concentric contraction) into account. In such case, we smoothed the transition between positive rate and zero using our smoothing functions. The difference between the original (non-smooth) and the smooth implementations is illustrated in the following figure:

Curves produced using fiber_force_active=250, velocity_smoothing=10

The metabolic energy model implementation includes an optional clamping that prevents the total metabolic rate (i.e., total metabolic power) to be negative. This clamping is done by increasing the shortening heat rate. We smoothed the transition between positive and negative total metabolic rate using our smoothing functions. The difference between the original (non-smooth) and the smooth implementations is illustrated in the following figure:

Curves produced using shorteningHeatRate=totalRate/4, power_smoothing=10

The metabolic energy model implementation includes an optional clamping (see Umberger et al (2003), page 104) that prevents the total heat rate (i.e., activation heat rate + maintenance heat rate + shortening heat rate) for a given muscle to fall below 1.0 W/kg. Note that, if active, this clamping will cause the sum of the reported individual heat rates and work rate to differ from the reported metabolic rate. We smoothed the transition between total heat rate higher and lower than 1.0 W/kg using our smoothing functions. The difference between the original (non-smooth) and the smooth implementations is illustrated in the following figure:

Curves produced using muscle_mass=0.4, heat_rate_smoothing=10

Note that the maintenance heat rate implementation relies on a PiecewiseLinearFunction. The first and second order derivatives of this function can be evaluated but they are discontinuous. This might cause issues with gradient-based optimization algorithms. Problems using this discontinuous function have successfully converged; therefore, we have included it in this implementation of the model.

You can enable smoothing via the use_smoothing property. The smoothing type ('tanh' or 'huber') can be chosen via the smoothing_type property, and the level of smoothing can be controlled by the velocity_smoothing, power_smoothing, and heat_rate_smoothing properties.

Muscles to be included when computing the total metabolic rate should be specified using one of the three addMuscle() function overloads. See the properties of Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics_MuscleParameters() for the default parameter values used when not specified via the second or third addMuscle() overload.

Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics* metabolics =
new Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics();
metabolics->setName("metabolics");
metabolics->set_use_smoothing(true);
// The simplest way to add the muscle to the metabolics model: just provide the
// name of the muscle and a reference to Muscle component.
metabolics->addMuscle("soleus_r", model.getComponent<Muscle>("soleus_r"));
// Provide the ratio of slow to fast twitch fibers and the specific tension of
// muscle when adding it to the metabolics model. The values shown are also the
// default values.
double ratio_slow_twitch_fibers = 0.5;
double specific_tension = 0.25e6;
metabolics->addMuscle("gastroc_r", model.getComponent<Muscle>("gastroc_r"),
ratio_slow_twitch_fibers, specific_tension);
// Provide the slow and fast twitch fiber constants used to compute the
// activation and maintenance heat rates. The values shown are also the default
// values.
double activation_constant_slow_twitch = 40.0;
double activation_constant_fast_twitch = 133.0;
double maintenance_constant_slow_twitch = 74.0;
double maintenance_constant_fast_twitch = 111.0;
metabolics->addMuscle("tibant_r", model.getComponent<Muscle>("tibant_r"),
ratio_slow_twitch_fibers, specific_tension,
activation_constant_slow_twitch, activation_constant_fast_twitch,
maintenance_constant_slow_twitch, maintenance_constant_fast_twitch);
model.addComponent(metabolics);
model.finalizeConnections();

The total metabolic rate output can be obtained using getTotalMetabolicRate(), which takes a SimTK::State as a argument. You can similarly obtain the individual heat rate and mechanical work rate components of the total metabolic cost via getTotalActivationRate(), getTotalMaintenanceRate(), getTotalShorteningRate(), and getTotalMechanicalWorkRate(). All outputs require realizing the passed SimTK::State to SimTK::Stage::Dynamics.

const auto& metabolics =
model.getComponent<Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics>("metabolics");
model.realizeDynamics(state);
double totalMetabolicRate = metabolics.getTotalMetabolicRate(state);
double activationHeatRate = metabolics.getTotalActivationRate(state);

Bhargava et al. 2004: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9290(03)00239-2

Member Function Documentation

◆ clone()

Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics* OpenSim::Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics::clone ( ) const
inlineoverridevirtual

Create a new heap-allocated copy of the concrete object to which this Object refers.

It is up to the caller to delete the returned object when no longer needed. Every concrete object deriving from Object implements this pure virtual method automatically, via the declaration macro it invokes (e.g., OpenSim_DECLARE_CONCRETE_OBJECT()). Note that the concrete class overrides modify the return type to be a pointer to the concrete object; that still overrides the base class method because the return type is covariant with (that is, derives from) Object.

Implements OpenSim::ModelComponent.

◆ getClassName()

static const std::string& OpenSim::Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics::getClassName ( )
inlinestatic

This returns "Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics"

See getConcreteClassName() if you want the class name of the underlying concrete object instead.

◆ getConcreteClassName()

const std::string& OpenSim::Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics::getConcreteClassName ( ) const
inlineoverridevirtual

Returns the class name of the concrete Object-derived class of the actual object referenced by this Object, as a string.

This is the string that is used as the tag for this concrete object in an XML file. Every concrete class derived from Object automatically overrides this method via the declaration macro it uses. See getClassName() to get the class name of the referencing (possibly abstract) class rather than the concrete object.

See also
getClassName()

Implements OpenSim::ModelComponent.

◆ safeDownCast()

static Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics* OpenSim::Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics::safeDownCast ( OpenSim::Object obj)
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For use in MATLAB and Python to access the concrete class.

Example: cObj = Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics.safeDownCast(obj). This is equivalent to dynamic_cast<Bhargava2004SmoothedMuscleMetabolics*>(obj) in C++.


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